Posts by Tom 38

blu eCigs was bought by Lorillard Tobacco then Imperial Brands (formerly Imperial Tobacco), R.J. Reynolds Tobacco owns Vuse, I am sure there are more links between vape companies and tobacco and that these links will increase (it would be stupid of tobacco firms not to control this market).

So I don't think there's any harm in our regulators keeping an eye on this market

Ah, but despite their best attempts, the tobacco companies are massively failing to control the vape market. This is precisely why they lobbied for TPD, which placed large restrictions on vape devices (in order to limit their utility), vape liquid manufacture (to restrict it to larger entities) and sale (to restrict home mixing and just generally annoy every vaper)

Re: Slight problem?

Same problem with SMS, but same problem with hardware token. Steal or gain access to the token granting service (whatever it is) and security is reduced.

PS: Missing step 1.5: Enter password

Re: easier way

And Enter, presumably ? I'm not very familiar with Emacs, but it's similar in Vi, and I stand by my words; please feel free to fire up Emacs and actually try it -from edit mode- in fewer that a dozen strikes

Whoosh

Re: Why the upset?

Using the same argument basis that put Nosal behind bars, both you and your spouse have engaged in criminal activity:

- Your spouse (more to the point), has accessed the service using a set of credentials that they have no right to.

Fucking hell, where the fuck do you people learn about the law? Criminal acts are those which are contrary to laws. Some shite written in a EULA is not a law, so breaking the EULA is not a crime. The account holder does not access computer systems without authorisation, and so in no way can be described as engaging in criminal activity.

Breaking an EULA cannot be a criminal act (unless the act is illegal in itself, eg Twitter probably disallow profane images of some kind; uploading those would be against the EULA, but would only be illegal if the images are illegal themselves eg CP)

Make your mind up Terry6

Tribal warfare

Sadly, that can be said about a lot of places. maybe all of them if you extend the definition of warfare to the non-violent political stuff. What else is the SNP or Catalonia or Brexit, or Myanmar about, other than asserting tribal history?

Clever piece of propagandist writing that. Assert that the behaviour of one group is the same as another. And just leave it standing as if it was in some way true. No need for rational argument there.

Yeah, Israel and Palestine are exactly like Spain and Catalonia. Why, just 10 years ago I remember Madrid bombing Plaça de Catalunya with white phosphorous.

Sounds like 2004 all over again, when GW Bush Proposed new launch systems subsidies for Boeing and Lockheed

FTFY

"Old Thrashbarg said that it was the ineffable will of Bob, and when they asked him what "ineffable" meant, he said look it up.

This was a problem because Old Thrashbarg had the only dictionary and he wouldn't let them borrow it. They asked him why not and he said that it was not for them to know the will of Almighty Bob, and when they asked him why not again, he said because he said so."

(isn't it from Mostly Harmless ("the fifth book in the increasingly mistitled HHGTTG trilogy"))

Re: Audio jack

Ahahaha a 3.5mm described as robust! Top giggles

Re: Some nutter says "We'll cancel student debt"

Ok, he didn't say "I'll cancel student debt". He did promise to cancel tuition fees and then said

I don’t see why those that had the historical misfortune to be at university during the £9,000 period should be burdened excessively compared to those that went before or those that come after. I will deal with it.

He then backtracked on that once it was explained how much debt was being discussed. It's important to note that "those that come after", under Corbyn, would not have any debt - so to not overburden one group compared to these people would mean...? Saying he'll "deal with it" means?

Re: Let me guess

You don't have to guess, it's in TFA.

Re: Thriller

I can't for the life of me think of a single thing Ballmer got right

Ballmer is a salesman, he built many people's fortunes at Microsoft with his sales techniques, building the M&S channel, conferences for resellers etc etc. He was an excellent VP of sales, but rubbish as a forward thinking CEO or doing strategic development.

OTOH, what has Nadella done that is so amazing? He's screwed up less, but he's not attempting to achieve as much.

Re: Full of it?

newspaper industry in the UK which, during the 80's thrived on scandal and getting the 'freshest' page 3 models

And the 90s too. I remember one week, the Sport (it's a daily printed publication in tabloid format, but calling it a newspaper is generous) ran a series of "they're coming" articles on a particularly pneumatic 15 year old girl; she was basically nude in these pics, but with boobs obscured by chairs etc. This all lead to her "unveiling" for her 16th birthday in the Sunday Sport

Re: Twitter

Sometimes I think for Trump, 140 characters is too much. He seems to get to the end and forget what he was talking about at the start.

This is why I still use rcs and refuse to switch to CVS.

Loose words loose downvotes on loser - no lose

Re: "while in jail he had had a religious epiphany."

I can't help but think that not all of these poor souls are being entirely honest.

And the mercy seat is glowing

And I think my head is smoking

And in a way I'm hopin'

to be done with all these looks of disbelief.

A life for a life

And a truth for a truth

And I've got nothin' left to loose.

And I'm not afraid to die

And the mercy seat is smoking

And I think my head is melting

And in a way that's helpin'

to be done with all this twistin' of the truth

An eye for an eye

And a tooth for a tooth

And any way I told the truth

But I'm afraid I told a lie.

Re: America is in decline! Go elsewhere

I always get putain and poutine mixed up. Which one does Canada have again?

In the very best Montreal bordellos, you can get both!

Re: I've thought of this often

You evidently know little of the complexities and immense costs of district heating systems, nor of the very limited uses of very low grade heat.

But I'm not, I live in a house using district heating, powered by burning wood pellets to generate electricity to heat the water. The source water for that comes in at (say) 10 C. Would we use more or less wood pellets if the water instead came in at 40 C from the large DC that is also served by the district heating? Would that make it cheaper or more expensive?

By the way, I find the district heating a lot more efficient than my previous boiler/radiators. It's roughly the same price, but I'm warmer in winter and have virtually infinite hot water, whilst before I had enough for a shower, and to the do the washing up, each day

Re: “How to burn jews”

Not really, Facebook provides tools for you to target people based upon what they have filled in on their profile. So you can target people who have "Software Developer" as their job title, or work at "HSBC". TFA is saying that they found people who had put things like "Jew burning" as their profession, apparently because Facebook was not monitoring those fields for unacceptable content, which allowed them to be targeted.

Can you make a word have the same meaning in different contexts just by saying it has

Sure. Remember, this is English, where we can make the word spelt "Happisburgh" be pronounced "Hayesburra".

I'm fairly certain he was high as fuck when he made the original post.

Re: That helps, does it?

See also: Flowdock's "native" application; webkit and a slow JS implementation mean that it uses even more resources than it did in the browser.

Re: Spoilsports

Yep, that's why they were asked to leave Europe in the first place.

@Eddy Ito

Never looked at a map on your phone? Listened to music? Checked a price online? Looked up the latest sports scores? Checked the weather forecast? Used a whatsapp group?

Re: Waddyamean 'Another reason to hate'?

I'd love to hate Excel at work, but sadly I'm only allowed to hate LibreOffice Calc. Cheap bastards.

Re: Best Description I Ever Read of Python....

Python's a great language for people who aren't programmers and never intend to become full-time programmers. I'm a systems engineer; I can knock shit together in Python fairly quickly and easily. I know network engineers who learn it. Hell, I know architects - not systems architects, actual building architects - who have learned a bit of python to help with scripting in Revit. Actual programmers who specialize in Python as their main job? Not so much.

Well this is just wrong. Python's ease of use for the novice is a benefit for the pro as well. It is an extremely expressive language that allows you to write a lot of functionality with a small amount of code. You can prototype faster in python, and the expressiveness means that refactoring is simple and, if following the pythonic style, simple.

The speed of python is not really relevant in most scenarios as anything cpu intensive can be written as a C extension, with a pythonic API added over the top. This usually makes the underlying library much easier to use, for instance it is much easier (less typing and clearer to the reader) to write XML and XPath manipulations using the python lxml library than it is to use libxml2 in C, but the speed of operation of both is virtually identical - python is just the plumbing around the boiler.

I don't think the criticism of the python open source libraries is particularly fair, as it applies to all languages with lots of open source libraries; you have to assess the quality and reliability yourself before using it. There are a lot of rubbish ones, but there are a lot of good ones also.

PS: The term "pythonic"; lots of people don't seem to like it, but this is what it stands for (verbatim from the language spec):

* Beautiful is better than ugly

* Explicit is better than implicit

* Simple is better than complex

* Complex is better than complicated

* Readability counts

Argue against any of those points.._{I'm guessing bob will try}

Re: PC fail

A nurse girlfriend told me that A&E patients had found that BabyCham bottles were not as ideally shaped as they looked.

Guys, please practise safe sex and remove the cork first.

Re: Cough

If you took the entire cost of the the London CCTV infrastructure and staffing and invested it in the NHS you'd probably save far more lives.

Maybe. Maybe not. What would be certain however is that after the next terrorist attack, we wouldn't know what happened, where it happened, and we'd have scared tooled up cops running around confused about what to do and where to go.

As someone who lives, works and socialises in places terrorists seem determined to attack, I'm OK with a little video action. No, its not going to stop the attacks, but it might minimise the effects and prevent another Bataclan.